From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 16 08:03:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA19334 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 08:03:17 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA19326 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 08:03:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id LAA29488 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:04:48 -0400 Received: from freefall.cdrom.com (freefall.cdrom.com [192.216.222.4]) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA26338 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 17:45:34 -0400 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA09193 ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 14:42:03 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA09185 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 14:42:02 -0700 Received: from netcom11.netcom.com (root@netcom11.netcom.com [192.100.81.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA09178 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 14:42:01 -0700 Received: from Ðãs’³6 *tá$6¢*tP by netcom11.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id OAA27130; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 14:41:06 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 14:41:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199506152141.OAA27130@netcom11.netcom.com> X-Mailer: NCSA Mosaic/2.0.0b4 (Windows x86) X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org:80/How/ From: rjiang@akbs.com (Ruiyuan Jiang) To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 2.0.5 From Floppy Diskettes Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install FreeBSD Release 2.0.5 to a machine "Compaq luggable" 486 DX-33 with 202MB hard disk, 20 MB RAM(no MS-DOS nothing). I use Kern-Developer and 3.5" diskettes (each diskettes has 6 files on it) options to do installation. After I specified all the options and started to load FreeBSD, the first message I got was "Warning: You have selected a Read-only root device and may be unable to find the appropriate device entries on it if it is from an older pre-slice version of FreeBSD". What I could do at this point was to hit enter to go to the next step. The system started to load from diskette "boot.flp" and rest of them. It seemed OK but when the system asked me to put in file bin\bin.as (started with file bin\bin.as to bin\bin.ax) which in my case is diskette 4. I put in and hit enter. After reading about 3 second, the system prompted me a message "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)". I could skip this diskette (I can choose to load it later) and could load next disketts. I tried to reformat the diskette and downloaded all the files again and tried to use brand new diskette, formated it first and downloaded the files and reinstalled FreeBSD but I stucked at the same place and got the same message. Does anyone out there know why? Thanks in advance. Ruiyuan Jiang System Administrator ADVANTAGE kbs, Inc. rjiang@akbs.com (908) 287-2236 FAX (908) 287-3193